Discipleship - Mentoring - Resources
Sharing Our Stories
If you're not sure how to begin your mentoring relationship, this discussion booklet provides a simple starting point. Mentors and students commit to meeting together six times. Our booklet provides a topic and discussion questions for each week's conversation--walking you through your childhood, your journey toward independence, your faith, and your sense of calling. The final week encourages you to discuss where to go next--whether to end here or continue the mentoring relationship.
Sharing our Stories is available through the Mentoring Office.
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Life Beyond Calvin: A Booklet for Seniors and their Mentors. This resource promotes helpful dialogue for mentors and mentees as students anticipate the changes that graduation will bring. Includes topics such as dealing with senioritis, navigating changes in relationships, and facing new responsibilities.

Heart to Heart: Discussions for Women. This booklet covers topics such as self-image, relationships with family and friends, finding balance among varied demands, romantic relationships, faith and the future.

Stories of Virtues. These thought-provoking stories written by members of the Calvin community will provide conversation starters for you as you contemplate practicing virtue in your everyday lives.



Other resources available upon request:
Guidelines for Mentoring @ Calvin College
Initial Conversation Considerations and Strategies
Tips for Mentors in Providing Feedback
Checklist for Confidentiality Assumptions
Mentoring Partnership Agreement Template
Coming to Closure: A Readiness Checklist
Turning Closure into Learning: Mentor Self-Reflection
Mentoring Stories 2004-05

Suggested books for discussion

Suggested books for mentors